Endocrine Abstracts

Goal: To study the relation between the obesity of children and their parents, and energy intake.Materials and methods: Of 236 households containing 828 population (356 children age 5–25 years, and the rest their parents) were selected from the subjects of ‘Tehran Lipid and Glucose study’ (2006–2008) for this study. Food intake of the subjects was studied using FFQ. In this study, energy intake ≥75 percentile was regarded as &#1...

Objective: To determine the association between markers of hepatic injury and serum, urinary, and intra-erythrocyte magnesium concentrations and dietary magnesium intake in obese children.Methods: In a case–control cross-sectional study, we studied 42 obese children and adolescents and 42 sex- and puberty-matched lean controls. Serum, urinary, and intra-erythrocyte magnesium levels, indexes of insulin sensitivity, and liver enzymes were measured. Di...